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On January 10, 1946, a small group of men bounced radio waves
off the moon—and the world has never been the same.
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of this event,
Cindy Stodola Pomerleau, daughter of the lead scientist
E. King Stodola, has written a book of essays not only about the
scientific triumph but about the men who made it happen
and about growing up in post World War II America.
Cindy Stodola Pomerleau
memoirist, essayist, blogger
Cindy Stodola Pomerleau was born in the tiny Jersey Shore town of Neptune in 1943. After earning a doctoral degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania, she directed an Oral History Project on Women in Medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She then pursued an additional degree in psychology and neuroscience and spent the rest of her professional career as a Research Professor in the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry, with a particular focus on cigarette smoking and nicotine dependence in women.
Whatever else she was doing in life, she continued to write books for adults and children, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles. Having retired, she now devotes full time to her "postprofessional career" of memoir- and essay-writing. She and Ovide, her husband of 55 years, live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a cat named Domino who graciously allows them to share his home. They have two daughters, two sons-in-law, two teenage grandchildren, and three grand-cats.
Whatever else she was doing in life, she continued to write books for adults and children, short stories, and newspaper and magazine articles. Having retired, she now devotes full time to her "postprofessional career" of memoir- and essay-writing. She and Ovide, her husband of 55 years, live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with a cat named Domino who graciously allows them to share his home. They have two daughters, two sons-in-law, two teenage grandchildren, and three grand-cats.
To the Moon and Back:
Essays on the Life and Times of Project Diana
On January 10, 1946, the US Army successfully bounced radar waves off the moon--the birth of radar astronomy, the first extraterrestrial communication, and the opening salvo in the Cold War. The author was just shy of three years old at the time, and her father, E. King Stodola, was scientific director of the team that carried out the experiment, code-named Project Diana.
To mark the 75th anniversary of this historic event, Cindy Stodola Pomerleau has written a series of essays using Project Diana as a lens for examining the transformations and dislocations occurring in the US during World War II and its aftermath.
Steeped in good humor and nostalgia, these wide-ranging narratives explore Project Diana's historical, sociological, political, and scientific context, as seen from the perspective of the tiny coastal New Jersey community where fate in the form of Camp Evans deposited her parents and their neighbors. Scientists and historians of science, engineers, Earth-Moon-Earth enthusiasts, history buffs, and Americana fans will all find something to love in this book.
To mark the 75th anniversary of this historic event, Cindy Stodola Pomerleau has written a series of essays using Project Diana as a lens for examining the transformations and dislocations occurring in the US during World War II and its aftermath.
Steeped in good humor and nostalgia, these wide-ranging narratives explore Project Diana's historical, sociological, political, and scientific context, as seen from the perspective of the tiny coastal New Jersey community where fate in the form of Camp Evans deposited her parents and their neighbors. Scientists and historians of science, engineers, Earth-Moon-Earth enthusiasts, history buffs, and Americana fans will all find something to love in this book.